Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).

Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).

The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.

Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.

VV. AA. – Twisted Cabaret

cd+dvd Volvox, VOL0902, France, 2010
This is a collection of music and video (on cd and dvd) tracking artists that are altering or simply using codes from what has been known as the “Weimar Cabaret.” This Cabaret included burlesque, darkness and comedy, and while its practices ended decades ago, its legacy can be found here in the form of modern music video artifacts. Culturally this is an environment that pushes on a theatrical and satirical anti-spectacle, including moments of self-derision (something currently unusual). It’s a micro-world, but one that nevertheless joyfully and theatrically plays with the audience. And that makes a clear point against the current overproduction of spectacle. Besides that, a compilation like this makes a very strong case: in the global mess of the millions of videos available on YouTube, or any online or TV digital music channel, connecting what seems to be a common cultural reference point for twenty-odd quite well known artists is a valuable effort. In the intoxicating abundance of moving images there’s a reconstruction of cultural archetypes used in alternative music without caring for the respective musical styles. Among the bands selected there are a couple of electronic music icons (the Residents and the Legendary Pink Dots) and there’s a clear effort to make the video section distinct from the audio section. This product seems more of a form of archiving, even a form of curating, more than just compiling. And having all the artifacts offline, in this case, seems valuable for preservation rather than just for limiting access.